Well you left out all the caveats.
I do it all the time, no problem. Key thing is while the drives
are HD capable (TEAC FD55GFV) I happen to have them
jumpered as required to properly run DD mode. In this
mode they are plain DD, DS 96 TP! drives.
Allison
-----Original Message-----
From: R. D. Davis <rdd_at_smart.net>
To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Date: Saturday, June 24, 2000 11:06 PM
Subject: DD disks and HD drives (was: Where can I find...)
>On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, Tony Duell wrote:
>> DD drives or that DD disks can be used in HD drives _as HD disks_
(most
>> HD drives can also handle DD disks, but only to store the amount of
data
>> that you'd get from a DD drive anyway).
>
>One word of caution regarding the use of DD disks in HD drives: it's
>been my experience that which this may appear to work, problems
>sometimes arise when one attempts to read the data written in a DD disk
>by an HD drive. It's only reliable as long as you're using the same
>drive; on quite a few occasions over the years I've had this happen when
>attempting this. So, it's safest to write to DD disks with DD drives,
>although this should be readable by any HD drive.
>
>--
>R. D. Davis
>rdd_at_perqlogic.com
>http://www.perqlogic.com/rdd
>410-744-4900
>
Received on Sun Jun 25 2000 - 06:31:42 BST